Sentence examples for as afflicting from inspiring English sources

To them war is a calamity and a social disaster, whether it is afflicted by one nation upon another or conceived of as afflicting humanity as a whole.

Swinton's impassioned open letter to her late friend, attacking the stagnation she sees as afflicting British cinema today, was the basis of Isaac Julien's documentary tribute Derek, earlier this year.

The 29-year-old poet's series of ballads, structured verses for Broken Britain, are similarly blunt in their assault on the national malaise, with media manipulation and the pursuit of easy fame among the other ills that Wright sees as afflicting our senses and sensibilities.

Conceived by her makers as a beacon of pluck in times of adversity, Kit is to her admirers both an antidote to "affluenza," that malaise that pop psychologists have identified as afflicting the contemporary rich, and a symbolic link to a fast-receding past.

Health officials in the Northwest Territories (NT) sought this research on behalf of communities like the Hamlet of Aklavik, where leaders expressed concern about the role of H. pylori in gastric cancer, perceived as afflicting an excessive number of community members.

She also called for more clarity on the issue of doping, in light of recent suggestions that Russian swimming could be as afflicted as track and field.

Serious skin problems and rashes are common around here, but few people have been as afflicted as Mickey Van Dunk, 33, who spends most of his days either in bed or smoking cigarettes on his front porch, shying away from other people because his skin looks as if it is being eaten away.

It's not just aging baby boomers who are suffering from memory lapses and "where did I put my keys?" Teens and twenty-somethings are just as afflicted as they confront endless streams of data, information, music, entertainment and chitchat through their ever-expanding warehouse of digital tools.

Glasgow East is as afflicted by the rackety housing economics as the rest of Anglo-America.

There are three types: hyperactive, as afflicted the patients described above; hypoactive, often overlooked because, like depression, it is characterized by apathy and sluggishness; and a mixed state, with both hyperactive and hypoactive periods.

The emphysema from which Tynan was dying painfully was not helped by incorrigible chain-smoking; and as if that weren't bad enough, he was increasingly impotent, as well as afflicted by a gruesome genital infection.